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ikmc class 5&6 2015-2023
ikmc class 5&6 2015-2023
3 point problems
(D) (E)
2. My umbrella has KANGAROO written on top. It is shown in the picture. Which of the
following pictures does not show my umbrella?
3. Sam painted the 9 squares with the colours black, white and grey as shown. At least how
many squares does he need to repaint so that no two squares with a common side have the
same colour?
4. There are 10 ducks. 5 of these ducks lay an egg every day. The other 5 lay an egg every
second day. How many eggs do the 10 ducks lay in a period of 10 days?
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5. The figure shows a board where each small square has an area of 4 cm2. What is the length
of the thick black line?
7.
8. Peter looks through a magnifying glass at different parts of a drawing on a wall. Which is
the picture that he cannot see?
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9. Each plant in John's garden has either 5 leaves, or 2 leaves and 1 flower. In total, the plants
have 6 flowers and 32 leaves. How many plants are there?
10. Alva has 4 paper strips of the same length. She glues 2 of them together with a 10 cm
overlap, and gets a strip 50 cm long.
With the other two paper strips, she wants to make a strip 56 cm long. How long should
the overlap be?
4 point problems
11. Tom used 6 squares with side 1 to form the shape in the picture. What is the perimeter of
the shape?
12. Every day Mary writes down the date and calculates the sum of the digits written. For
example, on March 19 she writes 19.03 and calculates 1 + 9 + 0 + 3 = 13. What is the
largest sum that she calculates during a year?
13. The rectangle in the picture consists of 4 equal rectangles. If has length 1 cm,
what is the length of ?
(D) (E)
15. On Jump Street, there are 9 houses in a row. At least one person lives in each house. Any
two neighbouring houses together are inhabited by at most six people. What is the largest
number of people that could be living on Jump Street?
16. Lucy and her mother were both born in January. Today, March 19 2015, Lucy adds the year
of her birth, the year of her mother's birth, her age, and her mother's age. What result does
she get?
(A) 4028 (B) 4029 (C) 4030 (D) 4031 (E) 4032
17. The area of a rectangle is 12 cm2. The lengths of its sides are natural numbers. Then, the
perimeter of this rectangle could be:
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18. Each of the 9 segments in the figure is to be coloured either blue, green or red. The sides of
every triangle are to have different colours. Three of the segments have already been
coloured, as shown. What colour can the segment marked with have?
19. In a bag there are 3 green apples, 5 yellow apples, 7 green pears and 2 yellow pears. Simon
randomly takes fruits out of the bag one by one. How many fruits must he take out in
order to be sure that he has at least one apple and one pear of the same colour?
20. A new chess piece ''kangaroo'' has been introduced. In each move, it jumps either 3 squares
vertically and 1 horizontally, or 3 squares horizontally and 1 vertically, as shown in the
picture. What is the minimum number of moves the kangaroo needs in order to go from its
current position to the square marked with A?
5 point problems
21. In this sum, equal letters represent equal digits, and different letters represent different
digits.
X
+ X
+ Y Y
Z Z Z
22. Jane bought 3 toys. For the first toy she paid half of her money and EUR1 more. For the
second toy she paid half of the remaining money and EUR2 more. Finally, for the third toy
she paid half of the remaining money and EUR3 more, thus spending all of her money.
How much money did she have initially?
(A) EUR36 (B) EUR45 (C) EUR34 (D) EUR65 (E) EUR100
23. Carla wants to fold a cube from a paper net. By mistake she drew 7 squares on her sheet
instead of 6 squares. Which square can she remove so that the figure remains connected
and Carla can fold a cube from it?
24. The number 100 is multiplied either by 2 or by 3, then the result is increased either by 1 or
by 2, and then the new result is divided either by 3 or by 4. The final result is a natural
number. What is this final result?
25. In a 4-digit number , the digits , , and are in increasing order from left to right.
What is the largest possible difference − of the 2-digit numbers and ?
26. Mary writes a number on each face of a cube. Then, for each vertex, she adds the numbers
on the three faces which share that vertex (for example, for vertex she adds the numbers
on faces , and ). The numbers computed by Mary for vertices , and
are 14, 16 and 24, respectively. What number does she compute for vertex ?
27. A train has 12 coaches. Each coach has the same number of compartments. Mike is
travelling in the third coach and in the 18 th compartment from the engine. Jane sat in the 7th
coach in the 50 th compartment from the engine. How many compartments are there in each
coach?
28. In how many ways can you place the 3 kangaroos in 3 different cells so that no 2
kangaroos are neighbours?
29. Four points lie on a line. The distances between them are, in increasing order:
2, 3, , 11, 12, 14. What is ?
30. Basil used small cubes with side 1 to construct a cube with side 4. After that, he painted
3 faces of the big cube red and the other 3 faces blue. After he finished, there was no small
cube with 3 red faces. How many small cubes have both red and blue faces?
10 cm
10 cm2 20 cm2 25 cm2 40 cm2 50 cm2
A B
C D E
A, B, C, D E
A B C D E
ABCD
A B D
A B
D C
1. Carrie has started to draw a cat. She finishes her drawing by adding
more colour. Which of the figures below can be her drawing?
(D) (E)
2. The Mayan people wrote numbers with dots and bars. A dot is written for 1 and a bar
for 5. How did they write 17?
(D) (E)
3. A digital clock shows the time 20:19. What will the clock show the
next time it uses the same digits?
(D) (E)
4. There are 14 girls and 12 boys in a kindergarten. If half of the children go for a walk, at
least how many of them are girls?
5. The sum of the dots on opposite faces of an ordinary dice is equal to 7. Which of the
following shows the ordinary one?
(D) (E)
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KSF 2019
2019 - Problems Benjamin (Class 5 & 6)
Time Allowed: 150 minutes
6. Which of the following geometric figures is not in this design?
8. The 6 smallest odd natural numbers are written on the faces of a dice. Toni throws it
three times and adds the results. Which of the following numbers cannot be the sum?
9. The sum of the ages of a group of kangaroos is 36 years. In two years time the sum of
their ages will be 60 years. How many kangaroos are in that group?
10. Michael paints the following buildings made up of identical cubes. Their bases are
made of 8 cubes. Which building needs the most paint?
(D) (E)
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2019 - Problems Benjamin (Class 5 & 6)
Time Allowed: 150 minutes
SECTION TWO - (4 point problems)
(A) 7 (B) 8
(C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 11
12. Riri the frog usually eats 5 spiders a day. When Riri is very hungry, she eats 10 spiders a
day. She ate 60 spiders in 9 days. How many days was she very hungry?
(D) (E)
14. Five equal squares are divided into smaller squares. Which square has the largest black
area?
(D) (E)
(A) 15 m (B) 17 m
(C) 18 m (D) 20 m
(E) 21 m
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KSF 2019
2019 - Problems Benjamin (Class 5 & 6)
Time Allowed: 150 minutes
16. In the garden of a witch there are 30 animals: dogs, cats and mice. The witch turns 6
dogs into cats. Then she turns 5 cats into mice. Now her garden has the same number of
dogs, cats and mice. How many cats were there at the beginning?
17. With blocks of dimension 1cm × 1cm × 2cm, you can build towers as shown in the
picture. How high is a tower that is built in the same way with 28 blocks?
18. Ali Baba and 40 thieves equally divided 42 identical bags of gold coins. Each of them
got one full bag and 2 coins. How many coins did a bag contain?
19. Alex, Bob and Carl go for a walk every day. If Alex doesn't wear a hat, then Bob wears a
hat. If Bob doesn't wear a hat, then Carl wears a hat. Today Bob is not wearing a hat. Who
is wearing a hat?
(A) Both Alex and Carl (B) Only Alex (C) Only Carl
(D) Neither Alex, nor Carl (E) It is not possible to determine.
(D) (E)
21. The cube shown in the figure has a positive integer written on each
face.
The products of the two numbers on opposite faces are the same. What is
the smallest possible sum of the six numbers on the cube?
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2019 - Problems Benjamin (Class 5 & 6)
Time Allowed: 150 minutes
22.
Six identical black beads and three identical white beads are arranged on weighing scales
as shown in the picture. What is the total weight of these nine beads?
23. Robert made 5 statements (A) - (E), exactly one of which is false. Which one?
(A) My son Basil has 3 sisters. (B) My daughter Ann has 2 brothers.
(C) My daughter Ann has 2 sisters. (D) My son Basil has 2 brothers.
(E) I have 5 children.
25. Each of the following pictures shows the net of a cube. Only one of the resulting cubes
has a closed line on it. Which one?
(D) (E)
26. Emily took selfies with her 8 cousins. Each of the 8 cousins is in two or three pictures. In
each picture there are exactly 5 cousins. How many selfies did Emily take?
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KSF 2019
2019 - Problems Benjamin (Class 5 & 6)
Time Allowed: 150 minutes
27. Jette and Willi are throwing balls at two identical pyramids of 15 cans. Jette knocks
down 6 cans with a total of 25 points. Willi knocks down 4 cans. How many points does
Willi score?
But, unfortunately, in every set of 7 segments the same 2 segments don't work. At this
moment my clock shows
(D) (E)
29. Linas builds a 4 × 4 × 4 cube using 32 white and 32 black 1 × 1 × 1 cubes. He arranges
the cubes so that as much of the surface of his large cube is white. What fraction of the
surface of his cube is white?
30. Zev has two machines: one exchanges 1 white token into 4 red tokens, while the other
exchanges 1 red token into 3 white ones. Zev has 4 white tokens. After exactly 11
exchanges, he has 31 tokens. How many of those are red?
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33rd INTERNATIONAL KANGAROO MATHEMATICS CONTEST 2023
KSF - Problems Benjamin (Class 5 & 6)
Time Allowed: 180 minutes
1. Holger fills the rest of the table with the numbers up to 40. following the system
shown:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12
(A) ~
22 23
33 (B) ~
20 21
28 (C) ~
20 21
29
(D) ~
21 22
30 (E) ~
21 22
31
2. Matchsticks can be placed to build numbers. as shown. For example. to build the
number 15. one needs 7 matchsticks. and one needs the same number of matchsticks
to build the number 8.
What is the largest positive number that can be built with seven matchsticks?
3. Which of the following shapes cannot be divided into two triangles by a single
straight line?
(A) L-~
(B) _ _ _--1
(C)
(D) (E)
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KSF - Problems Benjamin (Class 5 & 6)
Time Allowed: 180 minutes
(A) (8)
6. Anna has five circuLar discs of different sizes. She wants to buiLd a tower of four discs
so that each disc in her tower is smaller than the disc immediateLy beLow it. How
many different towers couLd Anna buiLd?
(A) M. N, Q, P (8) N, M. p, Q
(C) N, Q, M. P (D) N, M. Q, P
Q
(E) Q, N, M. P
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KSF - Problems Benjamin (Class 5 & 6)
Time Allowed: 180 minutes
1 2 3 4
(A) 1 and 2
(D) 2 and 4
o
.
(8) 1 and 3
(E) 1 and 4
.
(C) 2 and 3
. .,
(A) 2, 4 and 9 (8) 1, 5 and 10 (C) 4, 6 and 12
(D) 3,6 and 9 (E) 5, 7 and 12
10. Jonte glued the three pieces of paper shown '---_-' D D onto
the black circle on the right. Which of the following patterns could he not
obtain?
(D) (E)
11. Francesca wrote down three consecutive 2-digit numbers in their natural order. but
instead of the digits she used symbols: DO. C/~. C/O. Which number is next?
12. The Potters have a patio which is tiled with square tiles of
I--
three different sizes. The smallest squares have a
perimeter of 80 cm. A snake rests on the patio, as shown in r--
the diagram. What is the length of the snake?
{A} 380 em
{e} 420 em
{B} 400 em
{D} 440 em
-{E} 1680 em
13. When I look in a mirror, I can see the image of my digital clock standing on the table
behind me, as shown.
What image willi see when I look in the mirror 30 minutes later?
{A} 3 {B} 4
{e} 5 {D} 6 {E} 7
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33rd INTERNATIONAL KANGAROO MATHEMATICS CONTEST 2023
KSF - Problems Benjamin (Class 5 & 6)
Time Allowed: 180 minutes
17. Goran has four blocks. stacked as shown. In a single move. Goran can take
some. or all. of the blocks from the top of the stack and place them upside down. as
shown.
What is the smallest number of moves he needs to make to get to the correct order'?
19. lonneke wants the sum of the numbers in the white cells to equal the sum of the
numbers in the grey cells. Which two numbers does she need to swap'?
1 3 5 2 13
7 4 U 8 11
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Time Allowed: 180 minutes
(A) 1 and 4
(B) 2 and 3
(C) 1 and 3
(0) 2 and 4
(E) It cannot be determined
21. Tian wants to draw figures in the six boxes of the pyramid
shown. Each box should contain all of the figures in the two
boxes directly below it and nothing more. She has drawn
the figures in some of the boxes already. Which figures
should she draw in the box in the middle of the bottom
row?
The table shows the number of cubes in each column in the combined structure
when seen from above. Which of the five structures did Martha choose?
D-{iJ-~
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33 rd INTERNATIONAL KANGAROO MATHEMATICS CONTEST 2023
KSF - Problems Benjamin (Class 5 & 6)
Time Allowed: 180 minutes
In which order are the machines used to create the image shown?
machine? machine ? machine ? machine ?
4 • 4
24 ill 30 ill 66 ill
What is the smallest number of stakes that should be added so that the track is
divided into sections of equal length?
base of the new tower. She continues bV taking the two top blocks 1 4~1 11 44~ I
from the remainder of the original tower and putting them on the top
of the new tower. as seen in the diagram. Which of the following pairs 50
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of numbers are on adjacent blocks in the new tower?
(A) 29 and 28 (8) 34 and 35 (e) 29 and 26
(D) 31 and 33 (E) 27 and 30
26. Martin has three cards with numbers written on both sides. Front Back
28. Sonia and Robert are playing a game. They can alternately take 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 tiles
from a pile of tiles. Whoever takes the last tile or tiles loses. At one point of the
game, there are 10 tiles left in the pile and it is Sonia's turn to take some tiles. How
many tiles should Sonia leave to Robert to be sure that she will win?
29. Which of the following four shapes has the greatest area?
30. An explorer wants to find a path through the maze shown from the point marked
'start' to the point marked 'finish'. She can only move horizontally or vertically and
she can only pass through white circles. She also has to pass through all the white
circles exactly once. When she reaches the circle marked X, what will her next
move be?
(A) t
(8) !
(e) -+
(D) +-
(E) there is no such path
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